Notes
Catch a Ride! Let's Roll, San Mateo County.
Apr 19, 2012The Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance is launching a new campaign that aims to reduce single-occupant vehicles and rewards those who take public transit and/or bicycle to work.
Commuters who pledge to ride BART, Caltrain or SamTrans, or bicycle to work, at least eight times from April 1 to June 1, 2012 will be entered to win great prizes that include a $250 transit incentive... read the whole note.
Take the 2012 Drive Less Challenge!
Apr 19, 2012The Drive Less Challenge is a fun way to try alternatives to driving your car to work, school, shopping and other local places. Walking, biking and taking transit instead of driving are great ways to live healthy and reduce car traffic, the largest source of CO2 emissions in the Bay Area!
Sign up at drivelesschallenge.com to use their game-like trip log, share your stories, and to join... read the whole note.
Bike to Work Day membership drive and drawing
Apr 19, 2012Bike to Work Day is just around the corner, which means it's time for another no-holds-barred SVBC membership drive drawing! Everybody who joins SVBC or renews their SVBC membership between April 1 and May 31 will be entered into a drawing to win fabulous prizes, including bike gear, apparel, and our grand prize - a new bike!
Click here to join or renew now! You'll be adding to SVBC's... read the whole note.
Transportation Choices Summit
Apr 19, 2012The following invitation comes from Stuart Cohen, Executive Director at SVBC partner organization TransForm.
At TransForm, we believe all Californians deserve transportation choices: safe, abundant, affordable, and reliable options for getting where you need to go on foot, bicycle and public transportation.
Sadly, this is very low on the priority list for most of our leaders.... read the whole note.
"Tales from the Commute" survey
Apr 19, 2012The Santa Clara County Spare the Air Resource Team, a project of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, is conducting a survey of Bay Area commuters in order to learn how commuters use (or don't use) commute time -- perhaps commuters work during the commute, read, or do something else entirely. Gathering this information will assist us in raising awareness about the quality of life... read the whole note.
San José April trails update
Apr 19, 2012Here are the latest San José trails updates from Trail Manager Yves Zsutty.
Highway 237 Bikeway ConstructionConstruction of the bikeway project between Zanker Road and Coyote Creek (north side) continues. Two layers of asphalt concrete have been installed (on April 9 and 17). The warm-mix asphalt pavement recycles existing and degraded asphalt pavement found on site. The project... read the whole note.
Action Alert: Support San José bikeways
Apr 06, 2012San José cyclists: If you live or work here in "The Capital of Silicon Valley," we need you to act fast to let the City Council know that you support new bike infrastructure on 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th Streets as well as Almaden Boulevard, in the downtown area. SVBC has worked with the San José Department of Transportation, which has done a great job with public outreach surrounding this... read the whole note.
Action Alert: Support needed for three-foot passing bill
Apr 06, 2012In February, State Senator Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach introduced SB 1464, the new three-foot passing bill the California Bicycle Coalition is cosponsoring with the City of Los Angeles. It's identical to last year's three-foot bill (SB 910), but without the language the governor found problematic.
Click here to learn more about the bill.
At a State Capitol hearing on Tuesday,... read the whole note.
Campbell wraps up bike and ped safety project
Apr 05, 2012This update from the Campbell BPAC comes courtesy of Laura Smith. Thanks, Laura! To learn more about BPACs, head to http://bikesiliconvalley.org/resources/bpac/
The Pollard Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Project is almost complete. The goal of this project was to make Pollard Road near Rolling Hills Middle School safer for the children riding their bikes to school. The bike lanes... read the whole note.
Design the new SVBC brochure!
Apr 05, 2012Are you an InDesign impresario? Are you mad for Mad Men? Do you really love SVBC and long for a tangible way to express your admiration? You might be the perfect candidate to design our new SVBC brochure!
The old brochure (see above) has served us well, but has become, to put it delicately, totally out of date. It has our old logo, contains no current accomplishments, has pictures of... read the whole note.